They will be able rely on each other as well as support each other in the future. By wanting to be the best older sister, and if she is able to keep it up as years go by, she and her younger brother will become great friends. While most older siblings will feel the same jealousy, Pinky deals with it in a much more positive way. Pinky is a delightful character readers will root for.

However, she spent so much time with the new baby, she didn’t have much time to play with her friend Rex. Of course her parents wouldn’t forget her, but she was very worried. The plan was to be the best older sister, so her parents would be grateful and not forget her. It was especially hard for Pinky, so after talking with her best friend Rex, she hatched a plan. It’s always hard for young children to hear that they will be getting a new sibling. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

He does not know where his imagination will take him in the next thirty-plus years, but he is looking forward to finding out. He is especially proud of The Misfits, which inspired national No Name-Calling Week ( and its sequel Totally Joe. So far, his imagination has led him to picture books, such as I Wish I Were a Butterfly and Brontorina (about a dinosaur who dreams of being a ballerina), mysteries, poetry (in the upcoming Addie on the Inside), and fiction that deals with issues that matter deeply to him. But from the beginning of his career (which came about somewhat by accident after asking himself what kind of vampire a rabbit might make), he has been most interested in letting his imagination take him in whatever direction it cared to. White Read Aloud Award-winning Houndsley and Catina and its sequels. It sometimes confuses people that the author of the humorous Bunnicula series also wrote the dark young adult novel, The Watcher, or such beginning reader series as Pinky and Rex and the E.B. James Howe has written more than eighty books in the thirty-plus years he's been writing for young readers. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Pinky and Rex by James Howe